George Clooney has accepted a lot of the blame for this film, a humble admission but unfair. And so it was that everything that was symptomatically flawed with the series was expanded upon and magnified for the fourth, and by far the weakest, instalment. Akiva Goldsman was now the writer, and any sense of depth had given way to trite puns and disjointed set pieces. With the third, Batman Forever, the flat acting of new bat Val Kilmer was coupled with Joel Schumacher's garish direction and Chris O'Donnell's irritating Robin. ![]() The lesson wasn't learnt, and the usage of multiple baddies has been a fixed staple ever since. The second, Batman Returns, was a less successful effort to homage German expressionist cinema, the darkest of the four films, and struggled slightly under the weight of three villains. The first, still by far the best, allowed Jack Nicholson to ham it up amongst retro stylings and the music of Prince. The first two films in the franchise, anchored by the strong, and much undervalued lead of Michael Keaton, were enjoyable pop-art excursions by Tim Burton. What was I thinking, watching Batman & Robin for a third time? Even worse, what was I doing actually starting to enjoy it? Yes, there's something endearingly awful about a film that fails on almost every technical level. Though it does adequately describe the movie. Strangely enough, that's one ice-related pun that Mr.Freeze doesn't use in this film.
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